[Pkg-lirc-maint] Bug#660956: Bug#660956: /etc/init.d/lirc doesn't honor LIRCD_CONF variable in hardware.conf

[Stefan Lippers-Hollmann]

severity 660956 minor
tags 660956 + pending
thanks

Hi

On Thursday 23 February 2012, Joseph Nahmias wrote:
> Package: lirc
> Version: 0.9.0~pre1-1
> Severity: important
> File: /etc/init.d/lirc
> 
> Hello,
> 
> The instructions (as far as I can make out) say to configure lirc but
> editing the configuration in /etc/lirc/hardware.conf.  However, when I set
> the LIRCD_CONF variable, it is not recognized and when trying to start
> lirc I get a message that it is unconfigured and will not be started.
[...]

The upcomming lirc version currently prepared in the packaging svn 
won't offer that configuration option anymore, so you have to use
/etc/lirc/hardware/lircd.conf (be it as a symlink or copying/ creating
its contents). LIRCD_CONF has not been honoured at least since squeeze,
most likely since lenny already; policy and upstream changes now 
require even larger changes to the package configuration methods 
(/etc/lirc/hardware.conf will go away and gets replaced by 
/etc/default/lirc, which understands a subset of the old hardware.conf
syntax with a slightly different vocabulary (no more module loading 
through the initscript, no LIRCD_CONF/ LIRCMD_CONF)).

Regards
	Stefan Lippers-Hollmann